My doc is working with me in treating my manic episodes. I was recently bipolar I after being diagnosed bipolar II in September of 2015. I had a bad reaction to Abilify this past year when we were trying to treat the BPII symptoms (hallucinations, severe dissocation, hardcore return of suicidal ideation). He wanted to try Seroquel, but I couldn't bring myself to take it after the Abilify incident. I've been pushed away from antipsychotics after that incident.

He was cool about it, understood where I was coming from. We'd already tried Depakote, which increased my rage 1000x. I'm already an angry MFer, so that didn't go well. I was on it for a week before I had to nope out of it. My two options left are Lithium and Tegretol (carbamezapine). I've been doing research. I'm not sure which way to go. I wanted to get some input from an anyone else that may be/have been on either of this medications for the same reason/other reasons. Lithium is going to blow either way, but seems like Tegretol can really screw you up too.